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            <title><![CDATA[Russia Readies New Bond-Payment Plan in Bid to Avoid Default]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-29/russia-to-settle-eurobond-debt-in-mirror-of-eu-payments-for-gas</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 23:12:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pay Debt or Feed People Is Hungry Nations’ Impossible Choice]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pakistan Faces $6.4 Billion in Foreign Debt as IMF Talks Drag On]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 05:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Falls Into Default For The First Time Ever]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 06:41:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thailand to Shield $40 Billion Debt Plan From Yield Surge]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Suttinee (Ying) Yuvejwattana]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 03:03:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka’s IMF Talks Are at Risk After PM Quits, Citi Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 07:40:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Creative Carry Traders Turn to Low-Yield Asian Currency Funders]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 02:41:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Global Bond Rout Extends as Three Half-Point Fed Hikes Priced In]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Garfield Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:38:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[World Faces Growth, Inflation Trade-Off, Singapore’s Wong Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:13:35 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Lawrence Wong, Singapore&apos;s finance minister, speaks during the Ecosperity Conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. The 3 day event concludes today.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka’s Dollar Bondholders Eye How Much Can Be Salvaged]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sydney Maki]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:11:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Default Looms as Debt Payments Halted to Save Dollars]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anusha Ondaatjie]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:24:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Default Risk Seen High by Citi as Crisis Delays Loan]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:27:46 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>TOPSHOT - Protestors take part in a demonstration against the economic crisis in Colombo on April 9, 2022. - Severe shortages of food and fuel, alongside lengthy electricity blackouts, have led to weeks of widespread anti-government demonstrations with calls for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia to Halt Bond Sales, Threatens Legal Action Over Default]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2022 21:56:41 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Anton Siluanov, Russia&apos;s finance minister, speak to members of the media following Russia&apos;s President Vladimir Putin&apos;s annual state of the nation address in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. The Russian economy has nearly doubled since Putin took power in 2000, according to Bloomberg Economics estimates.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Next Big Bet in Emerging Markets Hangs on When Rate Cycles Peak]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Wong]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2022 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Faces Wall of Debt Payments Amid Economic Meltdown]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Police officers try to stop medical students as they protest against Sri Lanka&apos;s crippling economic crisis, outside the Health Ministry in Colombo on April 6, 2022. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Halts Stock Trading, Rupee Extends Drop Amid Protests]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:38:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>People clash with riot police as they demonstrate outside Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa&apos;s home to call for his stepping downas the country&apos;s unprecedented economic crisis worsened in Colombo, on March 31, 2022. - Diesel was no longer on sale across Sri Lanka on March 31, 2022, crippling transport as the crisis-hit country&apos;s 22 million people endure record-long power blackouts. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russian Isolation Chills Debt Market for Ex-Soviet Neighbors]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:30:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Citi Says Sri Lanka Needs Debt Restructuring as Signaled by IMF]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 02:28:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russian Bond Yields Soar as Market Reopens After Ukraine Invasion]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lilian Karunungan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:00:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China’s Sovereign Bonds Woo Buyers as PBOC Splits With World]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Wong]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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